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Read about BYU Marriott's School of Accountancy, the students in our accounting programs, the faculty and their research, as well as where our alumni are in their careers.
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School News

Career Initiative Boosts Job Placement

October 28, 2011
This year hundreds more Marriott School graduates were hired, resulting from an intensified focus on placement.
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Feature

Summer in the City

October 01, 2011
Not long after putting their pencils down on the last bubble sheet, many Marriott School students say good-bye to their final exams and to Y Mountain, leaving Provo in pursuit of internships and experience. 
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Alumni Spotlight

Luxury Sweet

October 01, 2011
Sumptuous. Decadent. Delightful.  Few words could more adequately describe a box of Lula’s Chocolates. Neatly perched inside each mahogany-colored package await aromatic round crèmes, salted caramels, square truffles, and nuts cloaked with melt-in-your-mouth cocoa. 
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Employee Experiences

Marriott School Professor Receives Maeser Teaching Award

September 23, 2011
Kay Stice was recently awarded the prestigious Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award.
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School News

Professor Monte Swain Appointed Associate MBA Director

September 02, 2011
Dean Gary Cornia appointed Monte Swain to serve as the new associate director of the MBA program.
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Employee Experiences

Doug Prawitt to discuss joy in progress at BYU devotional July 19

July 18, 2011
Doug Prawitt, the Glen Ardis Professor of Accountancy in the Marriott School of Management, will give the Brigham Young University devotional Tuesday, July 19, at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.
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Alumni Spotlight

A Lot at Steak

June 02, 2011
The idea had always glowed—however faintly—in the back of Steve Oldham’s mind. He jokes about it now, saying that just like every other missionary who returns from Brazil, he came home with dreams of starting his own Brazilian steakhouse.
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School News

Marriott School Students Select 2011 Merrill J. Bateman Award Winners

April 18, 2011
Marriott School announces the winners of the 2011 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
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School News

Marketing Professor Receives 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award

March 29, 2011
The Marriott School honored Michael Swenson as its 2011 Outstanding Faculty. Fourteen others were also recognized.
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School News

Marriott School Wins Awards for Communications Excellence

March 21, 2011
Good communicators are supposed to work behind the scenes, but sometimes they can't help getting pulled on stage.
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Student Spotlight

Students Win Top Honors at National Tax Competition

March 04, 2011
Taxes probably wouldn't place very high on most people's lists of extreme activities, but it does for five BYU students.
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Student Experiences

International Marriott School Students Prepare for a Lifetime of Service

January 26, 2011
CIS students from across the globe experienced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as they visited with LDS Church leaders.
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School News

BYU’s Business Startup Factory

December 27, 2010
BYU is being recognized as a business startup factory — churning out hundreds of student-run ventures each year.
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Student Experiences

BYU Students Network with Executives on Wall Street

December 20, 2010
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
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Student Experiences

BYU Accounting Students Build Houses and Goodwill

December 16, 2010
Accounting students traded in number crunchers for nail guns, levels and hand saws for Habitat for Humanity.
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Faculty Research

Count U.S. Out?

October 01, 2010
How the French Put U.S. Adoption of International Accounting Standards on the Rocks. 
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Alumni Spotlight

Three Decades of Crossing the Pacific

October 01, 2010
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, employees stay at their jobs for an average of 4.1 years. Like most people, Dennis Malloy never expected to stay at his first auditing firm for more than a few years, let alone thirty, but he found his niche at KPMG and never left.
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School News

BYU ranks 11th in eyes of recruiters, says The Wall Street Journal

September 14, 2010
BYU is ranked No. 11 in the country for schools whose graduates were the top-rated by recruiters, the WSJ reported.
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